Steven Maginnis
@vwsteve.bsky.social
writer, rock and roll fan, cat lover and VW enthusiast.
The title refers to Trump's recent behavior.
Illegal and Disgusting
The title is a phrase from comments Donald Trump made about how he filed against the federal government as a private citizen during the Bide...
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December 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The title refers to Trump's recent behavior.
Last week I reviewed a greatest-hits record that presented seventeen of the best arguments against the capitalist system and for increased support for music education. Here are fifteen more.
Madonna - GHV2 (2001)
Second verse. Same as the first. Her second greatest-hits product is not worse than her previous one - and the pose she strikes on the cov...
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December 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Last week I reviewed a greatest-hits record that presented seventeen of the best arguments against the capitalist system and for increased support for music education. Here are fifteen more.
The first - FIRST - secession crisis in the United States was perpetrated by states that actually had numerous reasons NOT to secede.
When (and When Not) To Secede
It was 165 years ago today, Thursday, December 20, 1860, that South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union in response to ...
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December 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The first - FIRST - secession crisis in the United States was perpetrated by states that actually had numerous reasons NOT to secede.
"It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year," Andy Williams (1963)
Christmas Music Video Of the Week
"It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year," Andy Williams What's Christmas without Mr. Christmas himself, Andy Williams? Written by Edward...
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December 20, 2025 at 3:31 AM
"It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year," Andy Williams (1963)
Cheap Trick performed at the Kennedy Center honors to celebrate Kiss and support the arts. Question: Why are we honoring rock and roll at the Kennedy Center in the first place?
Surrender
So many things are happening faster than I can comment on them, I figure I'd rather wait until next week just before Christmas and wrap up w...
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December 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Cheap Trick performed at the Kennedy Center honors to celebrate Kiss and support the arts. Question: Why are we honoring rock and roll at the Kennedy Center in the first place?
"Trump's corpulent body is big enough for the world to revolve around, and so he apparently has convinced himself that it in fact does." (This is about his response to Rob Reiner's death.)
Donald Trump, Evil Meathead
I wanted to write in this space about actor and director Rob Reiner and how, as a director, he made some of the most heartfelt and engaging ...
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December 16, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"Trump's corpulent body is big enough for the world to revolve around, and so he apparently has convinced himself that it in fact does." (This is about his response to Rob Reiner's death.)
The mother of all media mergers.
Hostility To Free Speech
This business deal in the media is so convoluted - most likely by design - that I had to consult AI to understand it. The bottom line is thi...
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December 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The mother of all media mergers.
Well, look what the cat dragged in! (Bad kitty!)
Madonna - The Immaculate Collection (1990)
The title is as it is blasphemous as is inaccurate, and you know it's Madonna because the title is blasphemous. It's not a collection, it'...
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December 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Well, look what the cat dragged in! (Bad kitty!)
Pictures of Jeffrey . . . and his friends.
They Got Pics
The Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released pictures of Epstein and his clients. Not Brian Epstein with the Beatles, and Gerry a...
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December 14, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Pictures of Jeffrey . . . and his friends.
"Mistletoe and Holly," Frank Sinatra (1957)
Christmas Music Video Of the Week
"Mistletoe and Holly," Frank Sinatra Today (December 12) is Frank Sinatra's 110th birthday anniversary, so what better way to celebrate it t...
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December 13, 2025 at 3:35 AM
"Mistletoe and Holly," Frank Sinatra (1957)
FIFA follies.
Political Football
When Donald Trump received the first-ever FIFA Peace Prize (relax, I'll get to the absurdity of that moment in a couple of paragraphs), he s...
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December 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
FIFA follies.
Memoirs of a journalistic courtesan . . . Olivia Nuzzi.
Fall Out Girl
When former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley announced his 2016 presidential campaign at Baltimore's Inner Harbor in May 2015, one reporter...
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December 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Memoirs of a journalistic courtesan . . . Olivia Nuzzi.
I have to take a long break from Instagram.
Social Media Disease
I have to quit Instagram for awhile. I turned my Instagram page into a repository for anti-Trump memes - two posts of anti-Trump memes with ...
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December 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I have to take a long break from Instagram.
Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music (1975): Sunday album review
Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music (1975)
All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. But that doesn't it's going to make anything good. Lou Reed's 1975 album ...
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December 7, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music (1975): Sunday album review
Megyn Kelly shouldn't be on Sirius XM. But I'm not leaving the satellite radio.
Megyn Kelly Is a Sadist
Megyn Kelly was always a jerk, ads noted by the pretentious Welsh spelling her parents used for her first name. But recent comments from t...
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December 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Megyn Kelly shouldn't be on Sirius XM. But I'm not leaving the satellite radio.
"White Christmas," the Drifters (1954)
Christmas Music Video Of the Week
"White Christmas," the Drifters This is my first Christmas Music Video Of the Week for 2025, and it is a humorous animation of the Drifter...
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December 6, 2025 at 4:44 AM
"White Christmas," the Drifters (1954)
And I know that my post isn't saying anything new . . .
Aftyn The Lovin'
Winning by losing? Democrats are actually celebrating the results of the special U.S. House election in Tennessee's Seventh Congressional Di...
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December 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
And I know that my post isn't saying anything new . . .
Pete Hegseth is a war criminal.
War Crimes Against Humanity
I once noted that I thought that the idea of a war crime is a redundancy because all war is a crime. But what happened three months ago tod...
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December 3, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Pete Hegseth is a war criminal.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono: Unfinished Music No. 1 - Two Virgins (1968) (Sunday record review) stevenmaginnis.blogspot.com/2025/11/john...
John Lennon and Yoko Ono: Unfinished Music No. 1 - Two Virgins (1968)
Everyone made such a big deal out of the cover of the first long player in John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Unfinished Music trilogy showing them ...
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December 1, 2025 at 4:44 AM
John Lennon and Yoko Ono: Unfinished Music No. 1 - Two Virgins (1968) (Sunday record review) stevenmaginnis.blogspot.com/2025/11/john...
When it comes to fighting climate change, even putative allies like European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (below) are no help.
Climate Clownishness
When it became apparent that either President Biden was likely to lose the 2024 presidential election or the Democrats would never be able t...
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November 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
When it comes to fighting climate change, even putative allies like European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (below) are no help.
"Bohemian Rhapsody," Queen (1975)
Music Video Of the Week
"Bohemian Rhapsody," Queen It was fifty years ago today (this was written on November 28) that Queen released their fourth album, A Night at...
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November 29, 2025 at 1:45 AM
"Bohemian Rhapsody," Queen (1975)
New Jersey Governor-elect Mikie Sherrill is seriously thinking of withholding federal tax dollars, which I understand can be a prelude to . . . secession.
Mikie Makes a Move
Gavin Newsom has floated the idea of California withholding tax payments to the federal government as a way of protesting Trump's regime. N...
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November 27, 2025 at 3:51 AM
New Jersey Governor-elect Mikie Sherrill is seriously thinking of withholding federal tax dollars, which I understand can be a prelude to . . . secession.
I think we've seen the last of Tim Ryan.
Ryan's Fall
As a Democratic U.S. Representative from Ohio who challenged the Democratic gerontocracy by going against Nancy Pelosi for the post of House...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I think we've seen the last of Tim Ryan.
Speaking out against Trump can get you killed.
I Give Up
I kept saying throughout the 2024 presidential campaign that Trump would make dissent a capital offense if returned to power. This past wee...
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November 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Speaking out against Trump can get you killed.
"Good Enough," Bonnie Raitt (song, 1975; video, 1977)
Music Video Of the Week
"Good Enough," Bonnie Raitt Bonnie Raitt had been a fixture of blues-based rock long before her spectacular mainstream success with her 1...
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November 22, 2025 at 4:55 AM
"Good Enough," Bonnie Raitt (song, 1975; video, 1977)